One question that has come up multiple times this month is what choices we have regarding our child. Before we get put on the wait list for a child we filled out a “child preference profile”. This is a couple pages long that allows us to state our “preferences”. In our case we requested a female child, 0-12 months, from Ethiopia. The rest of the preferences were regarding health. We were required to go through the list and mark willing to accept, not willing to accept, or willing to discuss. The list had things as menial as eczema to more involved conditions like HIV. There were things like missing limbs, cerebral palsy, on and on. Daniel and I spent a lot of time praying before filling out the list but for me, this was still a VERY difficult task. There were multiple conditions that I would check no to and then picture a child that I knew that I would have just denied. It’s one thing to say no to a condition but it feels like a whole different thing to say no to a child you have known and loved. I was very blessed to have a patient at work who has a biological child with a medical condition and also an adopted child. She was able to understand what we were going through and give encouragement and great advice. We were also able to hear stories of others that the Lord had put on their hearts specific conditions/diseases. We were encouraged and reminded that the Lord would change our minds or open doors to treatment if there was a condition that was meant for us to accept. It is just SO strange to have to choose such things.
This is our dog Hailey. We adopted her almost two years ago. She's the best dog in the world. She REALLY hated having to wear the collar during the healing phase but it was the only thing we found that she couldnt get out of. She's so darn cute I just have to add a couple more pictures of her.
My poor Jeep.
This is my Grandma, Frieda. She has nothing to do with my post but this is one of my favorite pictures of her. She turned a spunky 97 this fall!
